How high should boys sing? : gender, authenticity and credibility in the young male voice /
A boy sings ... a beautiful thing' (www.boychoirs.org), but is it? What kinds of boy, singing what kinds of music and to whom? Martin Ashley presents a unique consideration of boys' singing that shows the high voice to be historically, culturally and physiologically more problematic even t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The background
- Singing as social control of boyhood
- Physiology of the young male voice
- Subjectivity and agency in the young male voice
- Admiration of the boy
- A child doing a man's work in a man's world
- Angels in the market place
- We can't sing like men, so we won't sing at all
- Ambassadors and mediators
- The future.